Golmud Hydropower Station

Golmud Hydropower Station

The magnificent Golmud hydropower station on the Golmud River is known as the Pearl at the foot of Kunlun mountain. Golmud River is a big river in the southern margin of Qaidam Basin. The snow and ice in Kunlun mountains melt in summer, and it is galloping and roaring with the camp water. Behind it is a glittering artificial reservoir with a capacity of more than 4 million cubic meters. In front of it is a flying iron cable overpass on both sides of a rugged canyon. The water of the reservoir gushes out from the three flood gates of the dam, like graupel snow or waterfall, with jade beads splashing and water mist flying.

geographical environment

Geermu is located in the central and southern Qaidam Basin. Geographically speaking, Geermu is adjacent to Kunlun Mountains in the South and Qarhan Salt Lake in the north. There is a civil aviation airport leading to Xi'an and stopping in Xining. Geermu is the second largest city in Qinghai Province. The population here is mainly Han nationality and a small part is Hui nationality. Geermu is located in the Qaidam Basin known as "cornucopia", with extremely rich mineral resources. In addition, there are abundant water conservancy, land, wildlife and tourism resources. For tourists, to the east of Golmud is Xining, to the north is Dunhuang, and to the south is Lhasa. Perhaps this transit location makes Golmud interesting. Many tourists can get off and stop at Golmud and go to Xinjiang, Tibet and other places.

tourist resources

Golmud City is the western tourism hub and important distribution center, and the western tourism development center of Qinghai. It focuses on the development of Kunlun culture, salt lake scenery and salt industry theme tourism. In the urban area, there are Populus euphratica forest reserve known as "desert hero tree"; Mongolian grassland tent resort full of ethnic customs; and hot spring reservoir with more development potential. Within the jurisdiction, there are Kunlun Mountain, which is known as the ancestor of mountains and the holy land of Taoism; Chaerhan Salt Lake, which is the second largest salt lake in the world and the largest salt lake in China. The unique "wanzhang salt bridge" and "Yubo salt sea" on the salt lake are very famous in the eyes of Chinese people.

In the Tanggula area of Golmud City, there are the famous source of the Yangtze River - geladan Dongxue mountain, the pass of Tanggula Mountain in Qinghai Tibet. In the northwest of Yadan, the largest landscape group in the world, is close to Dunhuang, an ancient desert city, and the mysterious Hoh Xil no man's land, a plateau wildlife park. All of these are very attractive tourist resources.

Address: 30 km downstream of Golmud River, Golmud City

Longitude: 94.818466186523

Latitude: 36.000331878662

Ticket information: market price: 15.0 yuan